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0. A. & G. M. SMITH.

LINING FOR RAILWAY CARS.

No. 366,521. Patented July 12, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. SMITH AND CHARLES M. SMITH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO LEWIS J. BIRD, TRUSTEE, OF SAME PLACE.

LINING FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,521, dated July 12, 1887,

Application filed October 7, 1896. Serial No. 215,543. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES A. SMITH and CHARLES M. SMITH, both of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in-Upholstery for RailwayCars, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Our invention has for its object to uphol ster railway-cars of the class shown and described in the application of Charles M. Smith, Serial No. 215,545, in a novel and efficient manner. H 4,-

In accordance with our invention, the interior of the ear-body between the ribbed braces employed to strengthen the car-body on its inner side is provided with a lining,preferably of hair felt, but which may be of india-rubber, cork, paper pulp, or other sonnddeadening material.

The lining referred to is retained in position next to the body of the car by a sheathing of reticulated metalsuch as wire-clothwhich is held in place next the lining by rods supported by flanges of the ribbed braces referred to.

The sheathing of reticulated metal forms a backing for the upholstery, composed of hair and a suitable covering of cloth or leather, according to the style and finish desired for the interior of the ear, the said lining being knotted, tied, or otherwise fastened to the reticulated sheathing.

Figure 1 is an end view of a car-body constructed as described in the application referred to, it being upholstered on its inner side in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a view of the interior of the car, broken out to show the manner of securing the upholstery thereto; and Fig. 3, an enlarged partial cross-section of the car-body, to show the sheathing and upholstery.

The ear-body A, composed of metal plates riveted together and provided with the monitor top B and strengthened at its inner side by ribbed braces D, is constructed substantially as in the application referred to.

The interior of the car-body between the braces D and next the metal of the body is provided with a lining, a, preferably of hair felt, and which in practice Will be about three inches thick, the purpose or function of the lining being to deaden sound and to bea nonconductor of both heat and cold by radiation through the metal body, the hair felt being also preferable because of its fire-resisting properties; but instead of felt it is obvious that india-rubber or other sound-deadening materials might be employed, and so also might be employed some soft varieties of wood such, for instance, as cork or paper-pulp, the latter preferably being made moist and firerepellent in ways known to paper-makers.

The lining referred to is maintained in po 'sition by a sheathing, a, of reticulated metal,

which for cheapness may be wire-cloth, the said sheathing being held in place next the lining by the rods R, supported by the flanges 10 of the ribbed braces D.

The sheathing serves as a backing or sup port for the upholstery a composed, preferably, of hair and of suitable covering of cloth or leather, according to the finish desired for the interior of the car, the upholstering being I of any desired thickness, and being tied, knotted, or otherwise fastened to the reticulated sheathing, and, if desired, the cords or other connections may be extended through the lining. 4

The lining a, if of hair felt, serves as an elastic backing for the sheathing of the upholstery, and is an element of safety in case of accidents.

The rods R, located between the sheathing and upholstery, besides holding the lining and the sheathing in place and also aiding in supporting the upholstery from outward movement, also act, by reason of their number, to strengthen or stiffen the ear-body between the braces.

1. The metallic car-bod y and its sound-deadening and non-conducting lining, combined with the reticulated sheathing, and with means, substantially as described, to hold the latter in place, substantially as specified.

2. The metallic ear-body and its sound-dead ening and non-conducting lining, combined with the reticulated sheathing, and with the rods to hold the latter in place, substantially as described,

3. The metallic car-body and the reticulated sheathing therein, combined with upholstery attached to the said sheathing, and with rods to hold the sheathin in place at the interior of the car-body, sub tantially as described. CHARLES SMITH In testimony whereof we'have signed OUP'IO names to this specification in the presence of ,two subscribing witnesses.

4. The metallic car-body and the braces D CHARLES SMITH and rods R, combined with the lining held in WVitnesses: place by the said rods, substantially as de- F. L. EMERY, scribed.

I. H CHURCHILL. 

